Jayakanth Srinivasan

Jayakanth “JK” Srinivasan is a Research Associate Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and a Fellow at the Institute for Health Systems Innovation and Policy. Prior to joining BU, he led a research team at MIT working with the Army over a five-year period to iteratively transform behavioral health services for Soldiers and their families. He has also served as a faculty member at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering at MDH in Sweden.

Prof. Srinivasan is an excellent source of information for systems analysis and health system transformation, with a focus on system redesign, modeling and analytics, performance management, and change implementation. His current research projects focus on: understanding how leader sensemaking and sensegiving can improve individual and organizational health outcomes; and enabling precision medicine in behavioral healthcare settings.

He is the recipient of the Commander’s Award for Public Service, the Army Outstanding Civilian Service Award, and is a senior member of the ACM.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Srinivasan, J., Ivany, C., Sarmiento, D., Woodson, J. (2017). "How the U.S. Army Redesigned Its Mental Health System", Harvard Business Review
• Srinivasan, J., Brown, M., Ivany, C., Woodson, J. (2016). "How the US Army Personalized Its Mental Healthcare", Harvard Business Review
• Nightingale, D., Srinivasan, J. (2011). "Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation", American Management Association
• Srinivasan, J., DiBenigno, J., Carroll, J."Transformation of the US Army Behavioral Health System of Care: An Organizational Analysis Using the "Three Lenses"", Journal of Organizational Behavior Education

SELECTED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• Srinivasan, J. Applying Analytics to Construct Episodes of Mental Health Care, INFORMS, INFORMS Annual Meeting, INFORMS, Phoenix, 2018
• Srinivasan, J. Building the Army's Learning Mental Health System of Care, Lahey Clinic, Right Care Against All Odds, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, 2017
• Srinivasan, J. From Organized Anarchy to a System of Care, Boston Medical Center, BMC Quality Hub, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 2017